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NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” highlights a claim from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints, a proprietary database of provably false claims and their debunks. This week’s claim is that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to miscarriages. It is NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” due to its widespread appearance across social media platforms and websites, its high engagement levels, and the high-profile nature of the sources promoting it. Those three factors, as well as its significant subject matter and potential for harm, make it our False Claim of the Week.
Click here to read Reality Check’s article earlier this week debunking the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to miscarriages.
By John Gregory
What’s happening: A long-debunked claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused miscarriages in 82 percent of pregnant women resurfaced this week, spread widely among conservative commentators and by Republican U.S. senators on television and social media.
Context: The false claim that COVID vaccines cause miscarriages was reignited in recent days by the Aug. 10 release of a text message sent by Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. As NewsGuard ...
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